Jihad in Islamic history
Subtitle: doctrines and practice
By: Michael Bonner.
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Princeton
Language: eng
Number of pages: 197
ISBN-13: 9780691125749; 9780691138381
Subjects: Jihad -- History; War -- Religious aspects -- Islam
Work titles: Jihad.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [175]-190) and index.

Translated from the French.
Table of contents: title: Chapter One. Introduction; title: What is Jihad?; title: Just War and Holy War; title: Warfare and Jihad; title: Fields of debate; title: Historiography and origins; title: Chapter Two. The Quran and Arabia; title: Combat in the Quran; title: Gift and reciprocity; title: Fighting and recompense; title: "The beggar and the warrior"; title: Chapter Three. Muhammad and His Community; title: Sira and Maghazi: sacred history; title: Hadith: the norm; title: Themes of Jihad in the Hadith; title: Fighting with one's money; title: Chapter Four. The Great Conquests; title: The course of conquest; title: Explanations; title: Approaches to the Islamic sources; title: Approaches to the Non-Islamic sources; title: Chapter Five. Martyrdom; title: Martyrdom before Islam; title: Martyrdom in Quran and tradition; title: Contexts of martyrdom in Islam; title: Martyrs and Neomartyrs; title: Chapter Six. Encounter with the Other; title: Conquest society and fiscal regime; title: Treatment of Non-Muslims; title: Adome of Islam, Abode of War; title: Convivencia; title: Chapter Seven. Embattled Scholars; title: Syria and the Byzantine Frontier; title: Arabia; title: Iraq; title: North Africa; title: Spain; title: Central Asia; title: The embattled scholars: conclusions; title: Chapter Eight. Empires, Armies, and Frontiers; title: The Umayyad caliphate: Imperial Jihad; title: Revolution and Jihad; title: 'Abbasid caliphate and its military crisis; title: Frontier societies: against Byzantium; title: Frontier societies: Spain and North Africa; title: Ribat; title: The Crusades; title: Ottoman origins; title: Corsairs in the Mediterranean; title: The Western Sudan; title: Empires, Armies, and Frontiers: conclusions; title: Chapter Nine. Colonial Empire, Modern State, New Jihad; title: Resistance and Reform; title: Fundamentalism and Islamism; title: Chapter Ten. Conclusions.